Having switched over several times for broadband in my life time, I feel like I'm getting the reach-around... You know, the warm and fuzzy feeling when your 1 year contract expires and having your ass jammed up with bills and fraustration.
There seems to be plenty of natural predators of these toads.
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.htm "Predators of Cane Toad tadpoles in Australia include dragonfly nymphs, water beetles, Saw-shelled Turtles and Keelback Snakes. Keelbacks also eat young toads; laboratory tests have shown that they can tolerate low levels of toad toxins. Young or adult Cane Toads are eaten by wolf spiders, freshwater crayfish, Estuarine Crocodile, crows, White-faced Heron, kites, Bush Stone-curlew, Tawny Frogmouth, Water Rat and the Giant White-tailed Rat. Some predators eat only the toad's tongue, or attack its belly and eat only the mildly poisonous internal organs."
Also from this; "Only about 0.5% of Cane Toad individuals that hatch from eggs survive to reach sexual maturity and reproduce."
It's best to let the nature deal with the 0.5% and give some time for the natural predators to neutralize the toads. It's under reported that these toads are consider NEUTRAL and not harmful pests as they are portrayed (typical over-reaction by media) because mainly they eat as much "pests" as they harm non-pests (whatever that means). The effects are over-shadowed by the human-factor ("the toad killed my dog/cat!" factor).
Lastly it contributes scientifically valuable data on evolutionary effect. It may be more valuable and important to let the nature take its course rather than outback Ausies make some holiday "wacking" these toads as some sort of past time out of this as far as the ecology of Australia is concerned.
I'm no biologist, but hell, I can see that nature is more resilient than we give it credit for.
Why are you so quick to judge on other culture without looking at our own idiotic laws? So the millions of death by drunk driving is what you called "FOR A VICTIMLESS CRIME of all things"?
You can criticize all you want on islamic law, but I rather look at it from other way around. How many idiotic and barbaric laws do we still have? Death Penalty by EU's standard, it's nothing but barbaric and cruel. What the fuck?
Fucking 40 whips against millions of death toll by drunk driving, you tell that to a mother of 5 children who lost her entire fucking family in a drunk driving accident what is more fucking barbaric and cruel punishment while the drunk driver gets off scott free doing 6 monthes in jail.
You are a total retard for even talking about a subject you have absolutely no clue about. It's the LAW based on interpretation of religion. Second, you don't get stoned for drinking alcohol. Vast majority of Islamic countries don't "stone" you to death for drinking alcohol, you dumbass. Ignorant statements like yours just make me wonder if you still believe in fary tales of Sinbad. If you are going to state some false statement, at least do some research. Islamic law states for intoxicater to get 40 stripes. NOT STONED. And that's just being STRICT to the code of islamic law, not court's justice systems with laws made by legislative body.
Like caffeine? The LD-50 is only 10 grams. I'm sure, you'd heard so many lives destroyed by caffeine users and death toll by caffeine OD addicts. LD50 of THC is about 21 grams, but how many people died from smoking pot alone?
Because Marijuana is a different drug than alchohol, with much milder effects? What planet are you from and what biological composition is your body made out of? For a casual marijuana smoker, that may be true, but the effect is definitely not "milder" by volume.
Yes, the drug war has resulted in many violations of people's rights. So has Prohibition of 1920. So has World War 2. It still does not count for many other things that violates the rights, such as abuse of power. After all, this is where you are going, the abuse of power.
it shows that legalization, regulation. and taxation works. No, it doesn't. Moderation works. Without moderation, there is no evidence that shows regulation of alcohol could have worked. For instance, Islamic countries around the world shows that alcohol CAN BE EFFECTIVELY ILLEGALIZED.
Columbus came over in 1492. Marijuana was banned in 1937. That's 445 years. I'll give it over 40 years to spread. Your math is a bit fuzzy and deceptive. 1) 445 years of colonization? I don't think so. 2) wide spread usage of marijuana in US wasn't even until 19th century. 3) herbal use in religious settings wasn't even practiced that commonly, I doubt it's being used that commonly today regardless of the legality.
My statement wasn't specifically regarding "usage" of drug alone or a sad excuse for any criminal's action. My statement was, including but not exclusive, to drug trafficing and sale of narcotics. Drug screening isn't just to screen humans.
However it seems, the word "Drug Screening" makes a lot of people jumping to conclusion that their "freedom" will be taken away. The word "Paranoid" comes to mind.
One thing I do realize is that few people love to make comparison between alcohol and drug. Points may be valid, but lacks common sense. Many narcotics are highly potent and lethal in small amount. Trying to have a rational discussion without that crossing your mind is nothing but fruitless.
We can't even control drunk driving, what makes you think that "public" is going to be responsible enough to use marijuana without screaming civil right violation? Alcohol itself is a drug and stupid, making that as some kind of holy grail example to legalize narcotics is nothing but sad and idiotic. And I'm sure many cancer patients and HIV infected people are going to cry foul and I do sympathize by supporting State Law to legalize it as prescription medicine, but as recreational drug? Unless you are a Native Indian, please don't even use the word "We" as in "We have been using it as recreational purpose for centries."
Can the same level of service be provided by FedEx and UPS? I don't think so. FedEx and UPS, IMHO, are not in the business of delivery TO people, they are in business of delivery FROM people. I can only count until number infinity, the times I had to deal with FedEx and UPS about packages are discarded, kicked, dragged, damaged and mishandled. USPS Priority has been my choice of shippment and I prefer USPS Priority as a reciever.
It's just mind boggling that people think less of United States Postal Service even just in general. The number of postal service stations and volume of mail delivery on daily basis just dwarfs the volume of deliveries FedEx and UPS have to deal with.
Still no USPS shippment. I still haven't figured out why NewEgg isn't offerring USPS shippment as an option. Surely they say, "Free Shipping" as some kind of marketing term, but we all know that's not entirely true. In my experience with USPS, especially Priority Mail and light weight shippment below 5 lbs, it's been cheaper, reliable, and no hassle; beating out on FedEx and UPS.
Or maybe it's just me having bad experience with UPS and FedEx delivery.
Computers can be shut down, but love, what button do we need to shut that down? Addiction by overusage of computers affecting "love life" is a luxary only fools can endure. For the rest of us, it's a relevance from lack there of.
If that is true, shouldn't Slashdot comments also be negative against Linux? After all, Linus T. is NOT from America.
Although there is culture clash... nothing to do with Nationality but culture clash between GUI vs CLI, KDE vs GNOME, Linux vs BSD, Microsoft vs OSS, and oh yeah... MacOSX vs not-so-attractive yet smarter people.
Although I do think, Ajax with javascript/dhtml is pretty cool, it's a bit overkill to think that it will be the "desktop" platform of the future. My beef would be an idea of a secondary application layer (only logical, not literal) over OS and within browser application framework. The shared load between Javascript JIT compilation and native applications to make Ajax application smooth, stable and functional would be hard to implement especially for portable PDAs with underpower processors and limited memory and buffer cache. Not to mention Ajax applications will always have to be confined within browser application, not able to compete with multithreaded and compiled bytecode applications.
I think, for web "desktop" to be successful and attractive for "users," the web browser platform itself has to change dramatically to give Ajax applications an development edge and ability to compete with native applications. Otherwise similar fate of Java Applets may be ahead for Ajax.
"the person responsible for that hospitals computer systems is fired and never allowed to work again."
I would do this with grandstand fashion.
"You'll never work in this town again!".. then the ex-sysadmin walks away with empty saddle dragging against the dirt into the sunset... The camera zooms into the a stranger's face and he says, "There is a new consultant in town."
"But the Northwest Hospital case played out differently in January 2005....[]... Meanwhile, the hospital used some old-fashioned backup systems. When electronic file transfers didn't work, nurses ran the files up and down hallways. When key cards wouldn't work, they stood guard and inspected ID badges themselves."
The paging system didn't work and it could have cost them lives. That's an involuntary man-slaughter.
Not sure how those hospitals got infected in the first place (normally they aren't connected to external network), but surely the attackers are clearly responsible.
Instead of punishment in prison, those offenders should learn their lesson by giving sponge bath to elderly men around the clock for life.
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I already know this, but thanks for reminding me. However the service itself is not run by city. There is no Craigslist server in Ohio and Nevada. It's run by advertisment revenue, and Craigslist maintains moderation control over all ads and posts. If Craigslist can remove spam posts and nutjob comments in forums. why is it hard to imagine the same can be applied to WANTAD sections where most of their revenue is generated from? Did I even mention Craigslist is not-for-profit? exempt from tax?
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Having switched over several times for broadband in my life time, I feel like I'm getting the reach-around... You know, the warm and fuzzy feeling when your 1 year contract expires and having your ass jammed up with bills and fraustration.
give or take about couple of thousand years or more.
71 years ain't enough for many animals to adapt. As you states, that 0.5% can be resilient. So can nature.
If Ausies can't wait that long, I suggest, they start cook up some "Toad on the Barbie" and stop fucking with the natural food chain.
There seems to be plenty of natural predators of these toads.
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http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.ht
"Predators of Cane Toad tadpoles in Australia include dragonfly nymphs, water beetles, Saw-shelled Turtles and Keelback Snakes. Keelbacks also eat young toads; laboratory tests have shown that they can tolerate low levels of toad toxins. Young or adult Cane Toads are eaten by wolf spiders, freshwater crayfish, Estuarine Crocodile, crows, White-faced Heron, kites, Bush Stone-curlew, Tawny Frogmouth, Water Rat and the Giant White-tailed Rat. Some predators eat only the toad's tongue, or attack its belly and eat only the mildly poisonous internal organs."
Also from this;
"Only about 0.5% of Cane Toad individuals that hatch from eggs survive to reach sexual maturity and reproduce."
It's best to let the nature deal with the 0.5% and give some time for the natural predators to neutralize the toads. It's under reported that these toads are consider NEUTRAL and not harmful pests as they are portrayed (typical over-reaction by media) because mainly they eat as much "pests" as they harm non-pests (whatever that means). The effects are over-shadowed by the human-factor ("the toad killed my dog/cat!" factor).
Lastly it contributes scientifically valuable data on evolutionary effect. It may be more valuable and important to let the nature take its course rather than outback Ausies make some holiday "wacking" these toads as some sort of past time out of this as far as the ecology of Australia is concerned.
I'm no biologist, but hell, I can see that nature is more resilient than we give it credit for.
Why are you so quick to judge on other culture without looking at our own idiotic laws? So the millions of death by drunk driving is what you called "FOR A VICTIMLESS CRIME of all things"?
You can criticize all you want on islamic law, but I rather look at it from other way around. How many idiotic and barbaric laws do we still have? Death Penalty by EU's standard, it's nothing but barbaric and cruel. What the fuck?
Fucking 40 whips against millions of death toll by drunk driving, you tell that to a mother of 5 children who lost her entire fucking family in a drunk driving accident what is more fucking barbaric and cruel punishment while the drunk driver gets off scott free doing 6 monthes in jail.
You are a total retard for even talking about a subject you have absolutely no clue about. It's the LAW based on interpretation of religion. Second, you don't get stoned for drinking alcohol. Vast majority of Islamic countries don't "stone" you to death for drinking alcohol, you dumbass. Ignorant statements like yours just make me wonder if you still believe in fary tales of Sinbad. If you are going to state some false statement, at least do some research. Islamic law states for intoxicater to get 40 stripes. NOT STONED. And that's just being STRICT to the code of islamic law, not court's justice systems with laws made by legislative body.
Get the fact.
UK porn comes to mind... those filthy Brits...
Like caffeine? The LD-50 is only 10 grams.
I'm sure, you'd heard so many lives destroyed by caffeine users and death toll by caffeine OD addicts. LD50 of THC is about 21 grams, but how many people died from smoking pot alone?
Because Marijuana is a different drug than alchohol, with much milder effects?
What planet are you from and what biological composition is your body made out of? For a casual marijuana smoker, that may be true, but the effect is definitely not "milder" by volume.
Yes, the drug war has resulted in many violations of people's rights.
So has Prohibition of 1920. So has World War 2. It still does not count for many other things that violates the rights, such as abuse of power. After all, this is where you are going, the abuse of power.
it shows that legalization, regulation. and taxation works.
No, it doesn't. Moderation works. Without moderation, there is no evidence that shows regulation of alcohol could have worked. For instance, Islamic countries around the world shows that alcohol CAN BE EFFECTIVELY ILLEGALIZED.
Columbus came over in 1492. Marijuana was banned in 1937. That's 445 years. I'll give it over 40 years to spread.
Your math is a bit fuzzy and deceptive. 1) 445 years of colonization? I don't think so. 2) wide spread usage of marijuana in US wasn't even until 19th century. 3) herbal use in religious settings wasn't even practiced that commonly, I doubt it's being used that commonly today regardless of the legality.
My statement wasn't specifically regarding "usage" of drug alone or a sad excuse for any criminal's action. My statement was, including but not exclusive, to drug trafficing and sale of narcotics. Drug screening isn't just to screen humans.
However it seems, the word "Drug Screening" makes a lot of people jumping to conclusion that their "freedom" will be taken away. The word "Paranoid" comes to mind.
One thing I do realize is that few people love to make comparison between alcohol and drug. Points may be valid, but lacks common sense. Many narcotics are highly potent and lethal in small amount. Trying to have a rational discussion without that crossing your mind is nothing but fruitless.
We can't even control drunk driving, what makes you think that "public" is going to be responsible enough to use marijuana without screaming civil right violation? Alcohol itself is a drug and stupid, making that as some kind of holy grail example to legalize narcotics is nothing but sad and idiotic. And I'm sure many cancer patients and HIV infected people are going to cry foul and I do sympathize by supporting State Law to legalize it as prescription medicine, but as recreational drug? Unless you are a Native Indian, please don't even use the word "We" as in "We have been using it as recreational purpose for centries."
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm
something to think about.
"you're not in it for the freedom"
You mean, the freedom to cheat in sports and the freedom to rape and kill a kid just because you are under the influence.
Ah, that freedom~
You could come back and say;
"At least it's more portable than VLT to find the end of your birth canal."
Yes... yesterday WAS valentine's day...
You brought out a really good point.
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My package delivery done with USPS was nothing but excellent and I wouldn't expect anything less.
http://www.usps.com/all/optionsforreceivingmail/w
Can the same level of service be provided by FedEx and UPS? I don't think so. FedEx and UPS, IMHO, are not in the business of delivery TO people, they are in business of delivery FROM people. I can only count until number infinity, the times I had to deal with FedEx and UPS about packages are discarded, kicked, dragged, damaged and mishandled. USPS Priority has been my choice of shippment and I prefer USPS Priority as a reciever.
It's just mind boggling that people think less of United States Postal Service even just in general. The number of postal service stations and volume of mail delivery on daily basis just dwarfs the volume of deliveries FedEx and UPS have to deal with.
Still no USPS shippment. I still haven't figured out why NewEgg isn't offerring USPS shippment as an option. Surely they say, "Free Shipping" as some kind of marketing term, but we all know that's not entirely true. In my experience with USPS, especially Priority Mail and light weight shippment below 5 lbs, it's been cheaper, reliable, and no hassle; beating out on FedEx and UPS.
Or maybe it's just me having bad experience with UPS and FedEx delivery.
Computers can be shut down, but love, what button do we need to shut that down? Addiction by overusage of computers affecting "love life" is a luxary only fools can endure. For the rest of us, it's a relevance from lack there of.
Oil me up, computer. Daddy needs some loving.
USA is not about good taste. It's about "great taste but less filling."
Budweiser is American beer.. made by American brewer... founded by Ameri.. ok, you get the picture... and I'm missing the point.
If that is true, shouldn't Slashdot comments also be negative against Linux? After all, Linus T. is NOT from America.
... MacOSX vs not-so-attractive yet smarter people.
...
Although there is culture clash... nothing to do with Nationality but culture clash between GUI vs CLI, KDE vs GNOME, Linux vs BSD, Microsoft vs OSS, and oh yeah
Give me Slashdot or Give me Sex!
hmm, let me clarify...
Ajax using JavaScript coding or combination of JavaScript, HTML, CSS such as DHTML coding...
You know what I mean...
Although I do think, Ajax with javascript/dhtml is pretty cool, it's a bit overkill to think that it will be the "desktop" platform of the future. My beef would be an idea of a secondary application layer (only logical, not literal) over OS and within browser application framework. The shared load between Javascript JIT compilation and native applications to make Ajax application smooth, stable and functional would be hard to implement especially for portable PDAs with underpower processors and limited memory and buffer cache. Not to mention Ajax applications will always have to be confined within browser application, not able to compete with multithreaded and compiled bytecode applications.
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Try benchmark Javascript against your machine here;
http://www.24fun.com/downloadcenter/benchjs/bench
I think, for web "desktop" to be successful and attractive for "users," the web browser platform itself has to change dramatically to give Ajax applications an development edge and ability to compete with native applications. Otherwise similar fate of Java Applets may be ahead for Ajax.
We all know "no" means "yes"... Yes... you.. dirty filth... yes... daddy like... daddy like...
"the person responsible for that hospitals computer systems is fired and never allowed to work again."
.. then the ex-sysadmin walks away with empty saddle dragging against the dirt into the sunset... The camera zooms into the a stranger's face and he says, "There is a new consultant in town."
I would do this with grandstand fashion.
"You'll never work in this town again!"
"But the Northwest Hospital case played out differently in January 2005. ...[]... Meanwhile, the hospital used some old-fashioned backup systems. When electronic file transfers didn't work, nurses ran the files up and down hallways. When key cards wouldn't work, they stood guard and inspected ID badges themselves."
The paging system didn't work and it could have cost them lives. That's an involuntary man-slaughter.
Not sure how those hospitals got infected in the first place (normally they aren't connected to external network), but surely the attackers are clearly responsible.
Instead of punishment in prison, those offenders should learn their lesson by giving sponge bath to elderly men around the clock for life.
Ah... but how do you know "all humans" are "humans"?! hmmm
Sci-fi geeks, talk among yourselves... Now.
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I already know this, but thanks for reminding me. However the service itself is not run by city. There is no Craigslist server in Ohio and Nevada. It's run by advertisment revenue, and Craigslist maintains moderation control over all ads and posts. If Craigslist can remove spam posts and nutjob comments in forums. why is it hard to imagine the same can be applied to WANTAD sections where most of their revenue is generated from? Did I even mention Craigslist is not-for-profit? exempt from tax?